suppress
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This distinction is important because it suggests that LPC70 does not simply increase or suppress all prostaglandin activity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
People do not become Olympic gold medalists because they suppress impulses all day long.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
These GLP-1 injections suppress people's appetites, causing them to feel fuller sooner - but are not suitable for everyone and can have side effects.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
After years of war, the mind learns to suppress reactions to danger, she says—a way of protecting the fragments of ordinary life that remain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
I try to suppress a smile, but it’s hard.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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One officer for Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said it suppresses 70% to 95% or radio-controlled drones detected in the sector where his team operates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
As this wave makes it way over the Pacific, it suppresses the cold water that usually comes up from the deep ocean, making the surface temperature higher.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Warming suppresses upwelling — which normally allows colder, deeper and nutrient-rich ocean water to rise closer to the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I am fed up of going on stuff that masks and suppresses the symptoms rather than treating the actual problem," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Tagoe suppresses his tic often because his neck jerking around every other minute is not only uncomfortable, but it also makes him look unapproachable and wild.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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What stands out is that implied correlations have been suppressed since January 2023, around the same time SPY began to outperform RSP.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
It has been a record-breakingly quiet Atlantic season so far with development suppressed by the growing El Niño pattern.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Inspired by the museum’s Soviet Hippie collection, an archive that documents the suppressed Soviet subculture of the 1960s through photos, clothing and memorabilia, the workshops use historical events as foundations for creative prompts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The bacteria reduced iron buildup and lowered lipid peroxidation in the worms, changes that suppressed aging-related ferroptosis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
All my suppressed animosity came to the surface, and I decided it was time for me to leave Wilson.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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We all know what it feels like, even children recognize the feeling of effort, the effort of suppressing impulses.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
"It's all very well the policy saying XYZ content is allowed, but if the algorithm is still flagging all of that content and suppressing it, that's where the problem comes in," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
In lymphoma cells, the protein can stay stuck in the "on" position, continually suppressing death-related genes and allowing malignant cells to keep multiplying.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
This had the effect of suppressing mortgage rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
I press my lips together, suppressing a laugh.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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